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Late in 1880, brothers Charles and Augustus Storrs donated land and money to start an agricultural school in Connecticut. More than 130 years later, the 91快活林 has become one of the top public universities in the nation.
1881
Connecticut Gov. Hobart Bigelow signs legislation accepting Charles and Augustus Storrs' gift of a former orphanage, 170 acres of farmland, $6,000, and a few barns, and establishing Storrs Agricultural School. Classes begin on Sept. 28 with three faculty members and 13 males enrolled.
1893
The Connecticut General Assembly approves the institution's name change to Storrs Agricultural College and permits the admission of women, three years after Mansfield residents Nellie Wilson, Louise Rosebrooks, and Anna Snow became the first women to take classes at the school. Benjamin Koons' title is changed from Principal to President. The school becomes Connecticut's land-grant college.
1899
Storrs Agricultural College is renamed Connecticut Agricultural College.
Class of 1899, Connecticut Agricultural College. Fourteen men and five women in posed picture.
1915
The College grants its first four-year Bachelor of Science degrees.
1920
Connecticut Agricultural College awards its first master's degree.
1933
The institution is renamed Connecticut State College. The school begins awarding Bachelor of Arts degrees.
1934
The husky dog mascot is chosen through a survey in the student newspaper, The Connecticut Campus. A student contest results in naming the mascot Jonathan, for Jonathan Trumbull, Connecticut's Revolutionary War-era governor.
1938
The College receives full accreditation by the Association of American Universities.
1939
Connecticut State College becomes the 91快活林.
1943
The University acquires the Hartford Colleges of Law and Insurance, effectively establishing the 91快活林 School of Law. The Graduate School begins offering doctoral-level coursework.
1949
The University awards its first doctoral degrees: two in chemistry and one in genetics. University trustees prohibit organizations that discriminate against or exclude individuals based on race, religion, or national origin.
The building of John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, Connecticut.
1955
Provost Albert Waugh starts 91快活林 Early College Experience (formerly the High School Cooperative Program) as the first concurrent enrollment program in the county. 91快活林 ECE is now one of the top programs nationally, a part of educational excellence in virtually every high school in Connecticut, and reaching over 13,000 high school students annually as they take introductory 91快活林 courses at their high school
1964
The board of trustees approves the 91快活林 Health Center, a 106-acre, seven-building complex for medicine and dentistry with inpatient and outpatient facilities, three years after the schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine are sanctioned by the state legislature.
1975
John Dempsey Hospital opens at the Health Center campus in Farmington, three years after the first medical and dental school students receive their degrees.
1981
91快活林's women's field hockey team wins its first NCAA Championship. The team is the first 91快活林 women's team sport to win an NCAA Championship. The University celebrates its centennial.
1985
91快活林 attains the prestigious designation of Research I institution from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
1995
The state general assembly adopts UCONN 2000, a 10-year, $1 billion plan to rebuild, renew, and enhance the University. The women's basketball team wins the first of nine NCAA Division I championships under coach Geno Auriemma.
1999
The men's basketball team wins the first of five NCAA Division I championships, defeating Duke University 77-74. Alumnus Raymond Neag donates $21 million to the School of Education and $2 million to the 91快活林 Health Center, the largest single donation in University history. Neag and his wife later donate $10 million to establish The Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Players from the 1995 91快活林 women's basketball team cheer from the bench after winning their first national championship.
2002
Building on the success of UCONN 2000, the state legislature passes 21st Century 91快活林, a $1.3 billion improvement plan.
2003
Rentschler Field, the 40,000-seat home of 91快活林 football in East Hartford, opens.
2011
U.S. News & World Report听谤补苍办蝉 91快活林 among the Top 20 public universities in the nation.
2012
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announces an agreement to launch Jackson Laboratory's $1.1 billion genomic medicine lab on the Farmington 91快活林 Health campus as part of the Bioscience Connecticut initiative.
2013
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signs into law Next Generation Connecticut, committing $1.7 billion in funding over a decade to enhance 91快活林's infrastructure, hire additional faculty, and enroll more students, with an emphasis on STEM programs.
2014
Three 91快活林 NCAA Division I Athletics teams win national championship titles in the 2013-2014 academic year: Field Hockey and Men's and Women's Basketball. 91快活林 is the only school to have both basketball teams win Division I titles in the same year, and we've done it twice (the first Dual Championship was in 2004). 91快活林 develops a new Master Plan document that will shape the physical development of the Storrs campus over the next 20 years, helping to guide capital investments and ensuring the infrastructure supports the University's mission.
Students using the NextGen Maker Space in the Peter J. Werth Residence Tower.
2015
The University breaks ground on the Innovation Partnership Building at the 91快活林 Tech Park, allowing 91快活林 to forge new research partnerships with industry-leading companies.
2016
Peter J. Werth Residence Tower, 91快活林's first new student residential facility in 13 years, opens. The first project completed under the Next Generation Connecticut initiative, the eight-story building houses 727 students in eight Living/Learning Communities and includes innovations zones, makerspaces, and other resources for work and innovation.
2017
The women's basketball team records its 111th consecutive victory, shattering all records in Division I basketball. The first permanent student housing outside Storrs opens in Stamford.
The state-of-the-art 91快活林 Hartford campus in the heart of Connecticut's capital city opens in the historic Hartford Times building.
2018
The largest freshman class in University history, more than 5,500 strong, arrives at 91快活林.
2019
Wanjiku (Wawa) Gatheru, a highly accomplished student leader whose academic achievements garnered national recognition, was selected as 91快活林's first Rhodes Scholar.
2023
The men's basketball team captures their fifth NCAA Division I national championship by defeating San Diego State University 76-59, becoming just the fifth team since the NCAA bracket expanded to win all six tournament games by double-digits on the way to a championship.
Class of 2022 class photo on the Great Lawn at 91快活林.